The AOCE and WB have moderate overall forecasts for the metals in 2025 inline with IMF forecasts for a decline in economic growth and inflation, although we see the probability of a stagflationary scenario as still reasonably high.Read More

The past year was a difficult one overall for the metals, with the main standouts to the upside being a geopolitical risk-driven gain in gold, a China-driven rise in iron ore and a surge in uranium on broadening global support for nuclear power (Figure 1). A jump in global interest rates to near two-decade highs saw recession fears persist all year, and while one still did not actually eru...Read More

This year the post-global health crisis boom was brought to an end by a surge in inflation to forty-year highs, a major rise in global interest rates in an attempt to curb the rising prices and surging geopolitical risk after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While precious metals held up reasonably well as markets turned to them as a risk hedge, by Q2/22 the higher interest rates put an end t...Read More

Chile is the world leader in copper production, at 28.5% of the total in 2020, and this looks set to continue, with the country having the largest global reserves, at 23.0% of total. It is also the global leader for molybdenum, which is often found along with copper, and is a major lithium player, holding 51.1% of global reserves. Read More

Newfoundland has become a gold exploration hotspot over the past few years, with the sector seeing some of its strongest activity ever. While the province remains a small contributor to Canadian gold production, it has a substantial mineral industry well supported by the government, focused on iron ore, copper and nickel, and the surge in exploration suggests that gold output from the...Read More

Nevada is the core of the U.S. gold output, accounting for by far the majority, at 75.4% on average for the past year. The state looks set to remain a dominant player in U.S. gold, as it accounts for 49% of total U.S. reserves, with Alaska slightly ahead with 51% of reserves, but just 8.6% of current production. The U.S. accounts for 6.1% of global gold output, making Nevada one of the largest gol...Read More

The Golden Triangle in northwestern British Columbia has historically been a major site of Canadian gold production, beginning as early as the mid 1800s. There was a wave of production in the 1990s which cooled as the gold price declined, but larger scale production resumed in 2017, and the area has seen surging exploration interest over the past year, given that the region has some of the largest...Read More

In this report we outline the Quebec gold mining industry, including its major producers, and a survey of many of the junior miners focused on the province. Quebec accounts for 34% of Canadian gold production (second to Ontario, with 44%) and remains a major focus for both producers and junior miners.Read More

Red Lake has been one of the most prolific gold mining districts in Canada and the world, with exploration having started in the 1920s, and production, which began in the 1930s, continuing to the present day. The district is known for the high grade of its gold, its infrastructure, and strong institutional support, given the long history of mining in the area.Read More

(IDEX Online) - A new tracaeability check that will instantly confirm a diamond's country of origin from its Sarine ID number.Sarine, the diamond tech company behind the innovation, says traceability and sustainability have become just as important as an accurate 4Cs evaluation. Its Traceability Origin Check is being introduced as "a complimentary service for the natural diamond communit...Read More

4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingCypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corpProduction during the company's third quarter of this year, which runs to the end of November 2022, was impacted by a planned 5-week pr...Read More

Solaris Resources (TSX: SLS; US-OTC: SLSSF) has signed an investment contract with the government of Ecuador on its 100%-owned Warintza copper-gold project, which president and CEO Daniel Earle says "provides a foundation of certainty" and represents a "major milestone" for the company.The investment contract ratifies the Investment Protection Agreement announced in June and "significantly" de-ris...Read More

Share this articleVANCOUVER - Snowline Gold Corp. [SGD-CSE, SNWGF-OTCQB] shares were active Thursday after the company released more preliminary assay results from drilling at the Valley Zone on its Rogue gold project in the Canadian Yukon.Drilling highlights include hole V-22-032 which intersected a zone of sheeted quartz vein mineralization within the Valley intrusion averaging 1.72 g/t gold ove...Read More

Production during the company's third quarter of this year, which runs to the end of November 2022, was impacted by a planned 5-week processing plant shutdown from 7 September 2022 to 13 October 2022,Read More

Gold has gained around $200 an oz after it fell to more than a two-year low in September this year on investor expectations that interest rate increases by the US Federal Reserve will moderate.Read More

The past few days have seen a flurry of activity in the lithium space, with four Canadian and Australian firms announcing acquisitions and earn ins.Li3 Lithium (TSXV: LILI) announced Wednesday that its 50%-owned Li3 Resources has earned a 50% interest in the Mutare lithium project in eastern Zimbabwe through its US$250,000 funding of initial exploration at the site.Li3 Resources has until Dec. 31...Read More

(IDEX Online) -  A flamboyant pastor who was robbed at gunpoint of $1m of jewelry during a live-streamed sermon has been indicted on fraud and extortion charges.Lamor Miller-Whitehead, 45, of Paramus, New Jersey, dubbed the Bling Bishop by newspapers, is charged with two counts of wire fraud and one count of extortion, all of which carry a maximum 20-year sentence. He's also charged with...Read More

4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingCypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corp"The Government will impose the export ban on bauxite ore and stimulate domestic bauxite processing and refining industry," he said.Read More

4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingCypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corpWith hundreds, perhaps thousands, of indicators tracking aspects of mining industry investment attractiveness, confusion comes easily.Read More

"The government of Canada has determined the significant adverse environmental effects of the proposed Sukunka coal mine…could not be mitigated.Read More

4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingCypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corpThis confirms the Anglo-Australian mining giant's intention to buy OZ Minerals, announced on 18 November, and follows a four-week due d...Read More

Australia-based Vital Metals (ASX: VML; US-OTCQB: VTMXF) says it is pivoting from completing the rare earths separation plant in Saskatoon to better align with its Norwegian offtake partner while the cost of the processing facility has doubled.The cost of the Saskatoon plant has been estimated at "over $20 million" as recently as Vital's Sept. 20 press release. It now says the amount spent to date...Read More

Premium Nickel Resources (TSXV: PNRL) says drill results at its Selebi nickel-copper-cobalt project in Botswana advance the concept that two past-producing deposits there are connected at depth. The Toronto-based company acquired the project, 400 km north of the capital of Gaborone, in January and is aiming to find links between the Selebi north and south deposits, which are separat...Read More

The stock market absorbed a vicious whaling today. Yet our central concern is not the stock market.Our central concern is rather the economists' war against economics. It is a war nearly all mainstream economic schools of thought wage.It is a war against savings... and prudence.The individual saver is not necessarily an agent of Satan, concedes the economist of Keynesian leanings. Under limited ci...Read More

Argosy Minerals (ASX: AU) has produced battery quality lithium carbonate at its Rincon lithium project in Argentina's Salta province.The 99.76% lithium carbonate was produced as part of the commissioning phase of the 2,000 tonne per year lithium operation and the company says it plans to finish the ramp-up phase and achieve steady-state production by the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2023.Au...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Gitanjali Gems, the company established by Mehul Choksi, the fugitive diamantaire, has been named India's biggest willful defaulter, with unpaid loans of Rs 7,848 crore ($947m). The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has announced a Top 50 of "can pay, won't pay" borrowers.Gitanjali once had 4,000 points of sale, and more than a 50 per cent share of India's overa...Read More

Fury Gold Mines (TSX: FURY, NYSE-AM: FURY) says drill results from its Percival prospect may expand the resources at its Eau Claire project near James Bay in Quebec.The Vancouver-based company drilled five step-out holes on the westerly down plunge of its "considerably under-explored" Percival target, where high-grade mineralization has been defined in a 500 metre by 100 metre surface footprint to...Read More

Canada has rejected Glencore's (LSE: GLEN) proposed open-pit Sukunka coal mine project near Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia on environmental grounds.The coal mine, 55 km south of Chetwynd and 40 km west of Tumbler Ridge, would have produced three million tonnes of hard coking coal per year.The metallurgical coal mine would have had a mine life of up to 20 years, and a coal handling and processin...Read More

Nuton, a Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO; LSE: RIO; NASDAQ: RIO) venture that has developed innovative copper sulphide leach technologies, is taking a 16.5% stake in Regulus Resources (TSXV: REG; US-OTC: RGLSF) for US$15 million.Nuton's technologies have the potential to process arsenic-bearing copper sulphides with a lower carbon footprint and less impact on water resources than traditional concentrator proc...Read More